purchase
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These companies rely on debt funding to finance their expansion and purchase AI servers, leaving their business models vulnerable to rising interest rates.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 14, 2026
“Although most consumers don’t purchase diesel directly, it fuels the movement of goods and services across the economy,” they wrote.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 14, 2026
“Our overt preference is to buy American,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last year as he introduced Drone Dominance, a $1.1 billion Pentagon program to purchase small, lethal drones.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 13, 2026
Fiona Morris was one of the first to purchase items from the store.
From BBC β Oct. 13, 2026
There was more than one way to think about Mike Burry’s purchase of a billion dollars in credit default swaps.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Users swipe through recent purchases, rating each one as a “regret” or “worth it.”
From MarketWatch β Oct. 13, 2026
Then, artificial intelligence on the platform identifies patterns that lead to regretted purchases, which is ultimately supposed to help users spend less.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 13, 2026
Agents typically know to ask permission before doing major things like making purchases or deleting files, but other than that, they can have free rein.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 8, 2026
Cena, who is himself a car collector, recounted one of the most significant car purchases of his life -- "a fake Lamborghini."
From Barron's β Oct. 8, 2026
Phineas bought things only on impulse and only when he had the money, and since the two states rarely coincided his purchases were few and strange.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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They also said they had offered her a different singing bird for $2,000 from a clock-making shop in Germany, which she could have purchased that day.
From BBC β Oct. 14, 2026
Voting and property records show that he and his wife make their primary residence at a waterfront mansion in Coral Gables, Fla., that they purchased for $22 million in 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 14, 2026
A settlement reached last week requires the NGO to stop selling additional flights as part of the programme, while allowing previously purchased tickets to remain valid.
From Barron's β Oct. 14, 2026
Carrey purchased the Los Angeles property for $3.8 million in 1994—the same year his career skyrocketed with the release of “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” “The Mask,” and “Dumb and Dumber.”
From MarketWatch β Oct. 13, 2026
They even purchased a secondhand piano so they could keep making music together.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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The company that Warren Buffett guided for years didn’t stick with its tried-and-true investment strategy of purchasing value stocks.
From Barron's β Oct. 14, 2026
They were the only age group more likely to feel successful by investing than purchasing a home.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 13, 2026
But on social media, influencers and doomsday "preppers" are pushing the necessity of purchasing a $300 kit claimed to help people avoid emergency room visits.
From Barron's β Oct. 8, 2026
In purchasing power parity terms, which accounts for goods and services typically costing less in poorer countries, Chinese per capita GDP of about $29,500 was 2.5 times India’s $12,000.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 7, 2026
Since the buyer couldn’t know whose corn they were purchasing, the Chicago Board of Trade made up a category called number 2 field corn.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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